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@NovemberEmber you are getting married on my birthday. Good omen 😄

@Brundleflies21 you should watch the interview the FPS guys did with the Giant Squid designer. Very cool stuff

https://youtu.be/Y7o5kiIcK-Y?t=2295&si=jyLcH5utHtzuyUyb

This kind of sword and sorcery stuff is pretty tiresome IMO.

Witcher was fine. Skyrim was great. etc etc, but this medieval setting is so played out now. Even Doom is in this space.

Playing Silent Hill 2 for the first time.

This genre isn't normally my thing, but it is growing on me. About a 1/4 the way through. Getting mildly freaked out a lot so that's cool. Health and ammo economy is kind of perfect

@Brundleflies21
Well, it is by the guys to made Journey, so you never know

Agree about the demos for everyone thing.

I'm waiting for a huge discount. Loved 2016, bounced off Eternal so I'm a little wary

Loved GoT, so I'll probably get to this once it is discounts on my Wishlist

Never played MP so looking forward to the remake

Really hanging out for Control 2 though. Loved the first one. Brilliant setting, vibe, art style and combat engine

I’ve never been a platinum chaser so I just finished playing GoT when I finished the main story arc. I was already maxed out on all skills and stances so it was time to stop

On holiday in Spain so no PS5 but hopefully some Shmups on my Anbernic

I’ve never played a Metal Gear game so probably that one I would say

@AdamNovice saw them earlier this year. Brilliant fun crew

Bounced off the DIV grind. Enjoyed and completed Jusant. Not a fighting game guy so not much for me this month

I loved 1 and 2. Best game writing/story that I've ever experienced

I really wanted to like this game, but just couldn't do it. I like a good Western movie, but the whole Western mythology is boring to me (figure that out!)

Everyone else have fun!

Playing Indy Jones and having a ball. Just need to play it as though you are Indy and you can ignore the Bethesda-style gameplay

Finished Hogwarts Legacy (which I really enjoyed), and I've begun Death Stranding. A huge amount of cutscenes in the intro, so about to start the game for real

I might get to it. I never played the original back in the day.

I like remasters. I played the remaster of TLOU2 for the first time. It was terrific. I understand the arguments that they are money grabs etc, but yeah, of course they are. If I've never played them before then I get to play a more modern, hopefully optimised version of the experience

@lazarus11 TLDR: MS is a big company

/ I didn't read that wall of text either

Everyone gets upset by this, and then there's AI scraping...

@Fritz167 You should run, Run, RUUUUNNNN, RUUUUNNNNNN, RUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!

away from this

It feels like I might finish Hogwarts. Really enjoyed it. Boltgun or Death Stranding next? Maybe try some more Blue Prince

Loved Control. Really liked AW2

Really looking forward to this.

OK, good to know you can make the dodging/parry a bit easier. I hate Souls-like, because I'm old and useless.

I keep bouncing off JRPG style though, so I'll wait for a sale I think

Greater combat complexity
Greater side quest complexity

OK, so I'm reading "wait for a sale" from these replies

@LordGlarc OK, that's what I thought. Maybe I just suck

I've enjoyed Balatro but don't understand how you're meant to win. I've never made it to all of the blinds. I feel like I'm missing a core mechanic of the game or something.

I'll take a look at Boltgun. I'm all over the boomer-shooters (I'm an old *****)

Hogwarts. It is a happy fun game which we need more of these days. Rather enjoying the whole thing

There is no way GTA will be able to match the hype about it now. It is getting ludicrous

@CielloArc China has already been sub-contracting to Vietnam already. i.e. this has been happening for years.

Good to hear. I'm waiting on a sale, but I'll probably step into Shadows sooner than later

Too much shooter action will ruin any RP in the RPG part of this.

That being said, the original OW combat was janky AF IMO

Borderlands is boring. Tiny Tina was pretty fun, but fell into the same game loop and got boring as well.

I want a story based Titanfall. TF2 was awesome. Live service is killing so many IPs

@Steeleye50 because of difficulty, or story?

I'll take a look at some time. BG3 turned me towards turned based combat, but FF has never worked for me, so I'm not convinced. I'll wait for a sale

@Aniscape Yeah, a big map can be brilliant if it is used to create a country/nation/actual place that people live. As opposed to a space to copy and paste bandit camps into

Loved GoT, but bigger isn't needed. Slightly less ACness (or Far Cryness) would be better.

I completed most of GoT because the story was great and the Ronins were great. Once I maxed out my combat setup though it got samey.

Keen, but I'll wait for a sale. Way too many other things happening

BG3 has turned me towards turn based combat. I loved all my time with it.

I may go back one day, but my queue is already too long. That being said, I'm about to go back to Nier: Automata so it may happen

I understand why people don't dig BG3. Art is subjective

I played a fair bit of the first game and then just ran out of steam/interest. Shame really, because it was fun till it wasn't

The Skill Up guys did a great preview video discussing Marathon. They were basically on the side of: Bungie really knows how to create the shooter/gun play mechanic, and it's fun, but it just doesn't have the hook/loop to make it work

Personally I'm just not a PvP guy, so it'll probably be a no for me

@KundaliniRising333 I really liked her in the first season.

The issue is that Ellie the character is pretty unlikeable in TloU2. In game I mean

@AlexPorto I think it's just that the narrative structure of the game is very alien to a normal TV flow. i.e. massive focus change on character and tone half way through? Tricky for TV peeps to stick with that. In the game it's way easier to switch because you are playing those characters.

We shall see I guess, but I'm looking forward to it

PvP isn't for me so it's a no I guess. I generally like Bungie stuff, so it's a bit of a bummer

Makes sense to me. Live service games are as boring as hell.

I do lump D4 into that as well. There is basically no RPG in that click-fest

That being said, I really like the action adventure titles like Naughty Dog and GoW. No real RPG in those either, but the immersion is real

@saffeqwe I am new to FF, and I know how loved it is, so I went in hoping for something special. I just didn't get it. The combat was just too boring for me. The world is beautiful and the story OK, but it was all a bit of a drag.

For that reason I haven't bothered with Rebirth

I played some of the demo and could not vibe with the game mechanics at all. Oh well

I feel better about not getting Hogwarts earlier.

I'm waiting for FTP to release, but I'll probably play a bit. I enjoyed POE1 a fair bit